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In response to President Trump’s expected Executive Order, which will protect Jews on college campuses as a nationality, Rabbi Pesach Lerner, President of the Coalition for Jewish Values, made the following statement:

Twenty years ago, the world was preparing for a new millennium, Google had just launched, and the first iMac had hit stores. Here in Queens, we were creating our own milestones. Yeshiva Madreigas HaAdam was established more than two decades ago and quickly became a pillar of harbatzas haTorah in our Queens community. On Tuesday, December 10, the Yeshiva held its 20^th annual dinner celebration at Da Mikele Illagio, honoring an array of familiar faces.

The bar mitzvah marks a new stage in the life of a Jewish boy, taking him from a minor to an adult, with responsibilities to shoulder for the remainder of his life.

The Orthodox Union (OU), the nation’s largest Orthodox Jewish umbrella organization, applauds President Trump in advance of his signing an Executive Order that will provide new and stronger protections for Jewish students on college campuses against anti-Semitic attacks and harassment. (The order was signed during the White House’s Chanukah celebration.)

In the wake of the horrible anti-Semitic attack in Jersey City, the kosher community was left without their only supermarket that was decimated in the terrorist attack. Jersey City’s Mayor Steven Fulop knew whom to call to get emergency food to his city: Met Council. “We got the call Wednesday night and our immediate response was, “Of course we will get your constituents food for Shabbos.” Twenty-four hours later, we delivered and distributed over 10,000 pounds of food – from cholent mix to challah to eggs and even dessert like rugelach. We made sure that these 100 families had everything they needed for Shabbos,” explained David G. Greenfield, Met Council’s CEO.

People aged 60 and older, home alone due to loss of health, family, friends, etc. have a new group to connect with socially, religiously, and culturally.